Who's Hiring – Top employers week of 1-18-10

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 1/18/10.

Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding.
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The hospitality, business services, retail, engineering, banking, defense, health care, and telecommunications verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards.

Hospitality held onto the #1 spot this week as Pizza Hut, and Hilton were among the top hiring firms this week. Business Service firms IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, CSC and SAIC continue strong hiring.

Retail hiring continues strong in January, with Blockbuster and Sears still in the top 10 well after the holiday season. Other top retail hiring firms include Kmart, Murphy USA, Food Lion, and Radio Shack. Engineering firms were this week’s surprise with Praxis Engineering making it’s appearance on Who’s hiring at #4.

Banking continued strong this week as JPMorganChase registered #5 on the hiring list, while Wells Fargo, Bank of America, PNC, and Fifth Third were also included in the top hiring companies. Defense companies remained top hiring firms led by US Army, General Dynamics, and Raytheon, making the list.

Health care hiring continued its strong past quarter, led by UnitedHealth, HCR Manorcare, Gentiva Health, Aegis Therapies, Amedisys Home Health, and Quest Diagnostics among the health care top hiring companies. Telecommunications continued strong hiring, with AT&T and Verizon still staffing actively, joined by T-Mobile.

Based on surveys of US job advertisements in the top job board aggregators, the following companies added the most job openings:

Total Job Openings by direct advertisers (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

1. PizzaHut
2. IBM
3. Blockbuster
4. Praxis Engineering Tech
5. JPMorgan Chase
6. U.S. Army
7. Sears
8. UnitedHealth Group
9. AT&T
10. General Dynamics
11. HCR ManorCare
12. Gentiva Health Services
13. T-Mobile
14. Kmart
15. Raytheon
16. KEYW
17. Verizon Wireless
18. Accenture
19. Murphy USA
20. Food Lion
21. Wells Fargo
22. La Petite Academy
23. Deloitte
24. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
25. Bank of America
26. PNC Financial Services Group
27. Aegis Therapies
28. Aflac
29. Snap-on Tools
30. Combined Insurance
31. SAIC
32. Amedisys Home Health
33. Hilton Hotels
34. DaVita
35. Insphere Insurance
36. Quest Diagnostics
37. Childtime
38. RadioShack
39. Fifth Third Bank
40. Allstate

Job Openings Added This Week:

The Engineering, Hospitality, Business Services, Technology, Retail, Telecommunications and Health care verticals are the top industries with new job postings based on a survey of the nations’ leading job advertisements added during the past seven days.

Engineering firms led new hiring advertisements this week, with Praxis Engineering taking the top spot, and URS Corporation included in the top hiring firms. Hospitality continues to staff as Pizza Hut and Hilton took out new employment listings.

Business Services continued heavy hiring with IBM, SAIC, Accenture, Deloitte, and CSC all in the top employers. Technology is back as KEYW made #4 on the list of top employers joined by Infoscitex, and Clearwire as top employers. Retail continued strong post holiday hiring with Toys”R”Us, Sears, Petco, Food Lion, Kmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Radio Shack, and CVS Caremark in the top hiring firms.

Telecommunications remained strong for the past quarter with T-Mobile moving to #6, and with AT&T and Verizon continuing as top employment advertisers. Health care returned to the top 10 with Gentiva Health Services, HCR Manorcare, Boehringer Ingelheim, Amedisys Home Health, and Quest Diagnostics
included in the top employment new ads this week.

Job Openings added this week by direct advertisers (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

1. Praxis Engineering Tech
2. Pizza Hut
3. IBM
4. KEYW
5. Toys"R"Us
6. T-Mobile
7. Sears
8. SAIC
9. AT&T
10. Gentiva Health Services
11. Petco
12. JPMorgan Chase
13. Infoscitex Corporation
14. Food Lion
15. HCR Manorcare
16. Accenture
17. Kmart
18. General Dynamics
19. Wells Fargo
20. Bank of America
21. Deloitte
22. Bed Bath and Beyond Inc
23. Raytheon
24. Clearwire
25. Snap-on Tools
26. DaVita
27. Aflac
28. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
29. Boehringer Ingelheim
30. RadioShack
31. CVS Caremark
32. Hilton Hotels
33. Insphere Insurance
34. URS Corporation
35. Verizon Wireless
36. Meineke Car Care Center
37. Amedisys Home Health
38. Columbia University
39. Quest Diagnostics
40. Fifth Third Bank

Sources: CareerBuilder, Monster, Indeed, SimplyHired, HotJobs, Google. Excluded: Recruiters, Staffing firms, Training, Franchise, and Work-from-home opportunities.

Readers – If you know of employers announcing significant hiring plans, or employers actively adding large numbers of employees, please comment below to add to this list.

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